FW: April 1 workshop on building community business networks, sustainability and local first
Solin, Jeremy
this looks like a great event. Anyone available to attend?
Jeremy Solin
Director
LEAF K-12 Forestry Education Program
Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education
College of Natural Resources
UW-Stevens Point
800 Reserve St
Stevens Point, WI 54481
715-346-4907 (office)
715-340-0376 (cell)
From: Angie Lemar
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Subject: FW: April 1 workshop on building community business networks,
sustainability and local first
Hi all – something you may be interested in.
Angie
Angie Lemar, Program Director
Recycling Connections Corporation
P.O. Box 91; 1100 CenterPoint Drive, Ste. 303
Stevens Point, WI 54481
Direct Line: 715.347.5979
Office Line: 715.343.0722
National Leader to Present Workshop on Building Community Business Networks for Local Living Economies April 1 in Madison
Michelle Long, executive director of BALLE, the national Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, will lead a one-day workshop entitled Building Community Business Networks for Local Living Economies Thursday, April 1 at the Pyle Center on the UW-Madison campus. The day-long workshop will help Wisconsin community leaders learn how local, independent business networks in Wisconsin and throughout North America are transforming their economies into community-centered, green and fair places to live and work through a focus on green jobs, sustainable industries, investing locally and buying local first.
Ms. Long directs a network more than 80 local alliances with more than 21,000 businesses. She was co-founder of the 650+ member Sustainable Connections of Bellingham, Washington. Her alliance led Bellingham in becoming the nation's top EPA-certified green power community, a leader in green building, in fostering hundreds of new relationships between farmers and food buyers, and shifting thie purchasing behavior in 3 in 5 households toward choosing independent businesses first. Ms. Long is the co-author of Local First: A How-To Guide.
The April 1 workshop is co-hosted by UW-Madison Continuing Studies and Wisconsin Partners for SustainAbility, parent of the 450-member Dane Buy Local, one of BALLE's member alliances, Our Milwaukee, a fast-growing alliance of more than 160 businesses, and the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council.
Many other newer buy local initiatives will play active roles in the workshop. The workshop will attract economic development officials and small business owners from throughout Wisconsin, Iowa, northern Illinois and Michigan.
For program details and registration, see the attached flier or www.dcs.wisc.edu/pda/building-community.htm
Group discounts are available. Questions? Contact Rick Brooks, 608-265-4077. Sign up today! Registration will be limited.